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5: Answers to some questions from listeners on sound reproduction and recording given by DONALD ALDOUS , DOUGLAS BROWN JOHN CRABBE , and JOHN BORWICK (chairman)
Produced by Rosemary Jellis
A booklet is available

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Three programmes about spoken English in town and country; illustrated with recordings, many of them from the University of Leeds's Survey of English Dialects.
2: Modern dialects-the work of the Survey by STANLEY ELLIS
Lecturer in English at Leeds
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
This week's Study: page 51

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Obstruction and Obstructions: a comment on the legal aspect by CHARLES BRANDRETH
Women and Mechanics: by JEAN BARRETT , Travel and Motoring Editor of Woman
Gas Turbines for Motor Vehicles: NOEL PENNY, a research director, on the latest developments
Driver Training: a local authority enterprise together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

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STANLEY BLACK conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Leavins with MARI and GERALDINE PEPPIN (two pianos)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Gareth Walters
Including music by Tchaikovsky. Debussy, and Shostakovich, and ' Carnival of the Animals ' by Saint-Saens

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Flora Robson Festival
Dame Flora stars in some of her favourite plays
Bonaventure by Charlotte Hastings adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS
The villagers of Denzil St. David near Norwich will not forget that night in February 1947. The unusually high tides were battering at the sea walls and the countryside was threatened with severe flooding. Many people were leaving their homes for the safety of the high ground where stood the Convent of Our Lady of Rheims ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Flora Robson is in The Importance of Being Earnest ' at the Haymarket Theatre. London

Renee Houston recalls the exciting years between 1925-when she and her sister Billie first saw their names in lights at the London Coliseum-and 1935 when she became the talk of the town as a musical-comedy star and. on a film set, met her husband-to-be, Donald Stewart.
Her old friends ANONA WINN and GEORGIE WOOD add personal comments and memories to an intimate and individual reminiscence.
Produced by Trafford Whitelock

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